semi-extrinsic

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by semi-extrinsic 8d ago
It's actually no different for dice than for LLMs. Explaining accurately the reason for the exact outcome of any given dice roll someone makes would be stupendously hard. It would require lots of instrumentation and math and be poorly
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by semi-extrinsic 16d ago
I am entirely unsure whether to upvote or downvote.
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by semi-extrinsic 17d ago
There was research some years ago in Sweden that cars with 4WD get into accidents 20% - 30% more often than cars with 2WD. And cars with 4WD averaged 10% higher speed at the moment of the crash. The cause was found to be drivers with 2WD
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by semi-extrinsic 17d ago
If you think about what it actually means to have a time-varying smooth body force defined in all of 3-space, you fairly quickly come to that kind of conclusion. Even if someone comes up with a construction that does not require any forcing
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by semi-extrinsic 17d ago
"Does there exist a pathological combination of smooth body forces and initial conditions for this set of PDEs, where singularities appear, which by the way is completely impossible to actually create in the real world unless you are a
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by semi-extrinsic 18d ago
> For the next several decades, we'll have engineers (presumably with AI) optimize things like rocket engines and turbines and AC compressors to work a few percent better because the numerical approximations might have caused us to
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by semi-extrinsic 18d ago
> Knowing the exact mathematical breakdown mechanisms helps developers improve adaptive mesh refinement and sub-grid scale models around high-vorticity regions (like vortex stretching and turbulent shear layers). This is 100% wrong and r
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by semi-extrinsic 18d ago
This is a wrong interpretation. Physicists have a shit-ton of models that produce "aphysical singularities", they just work around those to get meaningful answers anyway. This is a whole trope and stereotype. Some of the most succ
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by semi-extrinsic 18d ago
Obtaining a finite-time blow-up for Navier-Stokes does not necessarily advance the field of mathematics by any significant measure, whether the proof is very long or very short. As a concrete example, such a proof could be less than a page
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by semi-extrinsic 24d ago
For cold / glacial backups, M-disc will run you $200 for 10x 100GB discs, plus around $300 for a pair of USB Blu-ray burners. With that, your data up to 500 GB can be written in duplicates and stored at two physical locations (one driv
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by semi-extrinsic 24d ago
Depends heavily on the software cost and how far from core competency it is. If the company already has a developer team and the software is an expensive domain-specific CRUD app for internal use without significant compliance or risk facto
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by semi-extrinsic 24d ago
That's the opening line to Pride and Prejudice, where Jane Austen (I guess the "bot" part of the name is intentional) states something that many people of the time would superficially agree on, but which is intended to be hig
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by semi-extrinsic 1mo ago
Yes, before I read the last sentence I was going to comment that this niche seems entirely taken by Garmin/Suunto/Polar.
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by semi-extrinsic 2mo ago
Could you post a few links to these things? Last I remember there were a few PoC around pushing toy-scale examples, but nobody close to "quantum supremacy for application X"? A cursory google still seems to indicate people are usi
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by semi-extrinsic 2mo ago
Currently there seems to be very little anti-AI bias in maths, and more of a "huh, cool new toy, let's see what it can do" vibe.
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by semi-extrinsic 2mo ago
As long as they are not poisoning pigeons in the park.
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by semi-extrinsic 2mo ago
Appreciate the good answer. Out of curiosity, ofder of magnitude how much would a person need to be bowling to get good enough that choice of shoe matters?
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by semi-extrinsic 2mo ago
Never understood the need to wear extremely uncomfortable and ill-fitting shoes just to throw a ball. Always seemed like a way to jack the price up. Sure, professional bowlers use specialised shoes. Professional footballers and professional
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by semi-extrinsic 2mo ago
OTOH, if you run vanilla ssh on a publicly accessible machine where only port 22 is open, sshd only allows publickey-based authentication and the only accepted key types are FIDO2/U2F hardware-backed keys, it's probably more secur
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
Anything that can explode if overheated in a refinery is covered with passive fire protection. This is designed to withstand jet fire exposure, meaning a heat load of at least 1100 °C and at least 250 kW/m2. Ordinary sunlight at peak i
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
> In a television it's an added cost and it's unclear if serving ads really can offset that extra $25-100 of hardware (and included data) you ship on a $200-1000 television. Amazon seems to have done the math and found that it
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
It's not the top triangle bits that cause the problem, it's that the whole geometry is different with parallel versus tapered flanks.
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
The JIS, ISO and ASME standards for cross head screw drivers are fully compatible. The myth that JIS needs special screwdrivers is caused by people using either using the wrong size (easy at small sizes), using a worn-out or poorly-made scr
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
> If you’re good at prompting, you’ll prompt, and there is no way in hell someone that doesn’t prompt has any chance at all at, well, anything academic really. This is far too bleak a view. I've been doing a wide range of academic w
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
It seems to me that the technical people who get invited to public debates are simply not competent or knowledgable enough. We definitely need to step up! But a part of me wonders if this may be by design from the debate moderators - if a t
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
> Some people want to require device attestation, so you could only do this handshake from a government approved device running a government approved operating system. Forget using Linux or maybe even a general purpose computer at all. T
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
I don't know about you guys, but half of the time I give Opus something actually complicated, it spends 50+ minutes trying to understand the problem, running lots of searches and tool calls, and then gives up and just writes a brief su
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
Just run a compressor! Like the Loudmax plugin if your audio source is a PC, or buy a Behringer CL9 ($30) and plug into your aduio chain if you don't want a computer involved. Problem solved. This looks like someone using vibe coding w
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by semi-extrinsic 3mo ago
I'm a casual gamer who also played TA in the olden days. I have enjoyed playing through the BAR scenarios / tutorials and have had fun playing maybe 100-ish hours against the built-in AIs. It's a good solo game, especially wi
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by semi-extrinsic 4mo ago
We faced this problem recently when doing an old-fashioned experiment to test a hypothesis. Can you trust the images from your phone to check if phenomenon X has occurred or not? What if the AI model processing the image just hallucinated w

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